A Quest on Hadoop

Everyday quintillion bytes of data are created. About 90% of this data which are posts to social media sites, digital pictures, videos etc. are unstructured. These data is BigData and should be formatted to make it suitable for data mining and its subsequent analysis. Hadoop offers a firm platform in this regard and is designed to handle mixture of complex and structured data so that computationally extensive tasks can be performed. The paper also acquaints a brief idea on how we store and query BigData using Hadoop.